Hi,
As far as I know commands such as chmod, chown etc. which I regarding
file or directory right permission require ext2 file sytem. Hence they are not
executed on msdos / vfat partition.
Correct me guys if I am wrong.
Rajesh
On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, you wrote:
> Hi friends,
>
>
> the drive is mounted and it is in read write mode - no problem. But when i am trying
>to change the ownership
> of any of the files chmod does not give me an error. But does not in acutality do it
>also.
> i also tried the option of mounting as vfat, but in vain.
>
> could someone tell me:
> 1) why is it not giving an error when it is not actually able to do it?
> 2) how to mount it such that i can do chmod on the files?
>
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